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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 1120041, member: 111&quot;]Not quite sure what to make of this recently acquired piece, if selling, would probably describe it as folk art, but from where?&nbsp; It&#039;s rather naively carved from a hard, but lightweight, fine-grained wood, the only similar item I found claims boxwood, and seems reasonable.&nbsp; The woman reminds me of a ship&#039;s figurehead, there is a critter on the back of her head that kind of looks to me like a deer or antelope, the seller just said &#039;animal&#039;, the one on the similar item is described as a rabbit, and there are birds carved on each side.&nbsp; There is something vaguely familiar about her, but I&#039;m not really coming up with why, though it does remind me a bit of bone prisoner carvings - seems to have some honest age, but could have just been carved by some &#039;70s hippie...</p><p><br /></p><p>Measures about 6.75&quot; long and about 1.75&quot; at its widest (my pics are from my phone, and they look washed out on my laptop, there is actually a a sort of orangish tone to the wood):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211367[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211368[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211369[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211370[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211371[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211372[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the similar piece (sold on eBay for $52.99 in 2018), no lady on this one, but does&nbsp; look like it might have been the same carver, it&#039;s signed &#039;ATZ&#039;, and the sales description is, umm, interesting, firmly stating it&#039;s American and &#039;extremely rare&#039;, alludes to a fairy tale, and describes some stuff I&#039;m just not seeing (a platypus - really?):</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]211364[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]211365[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]211366[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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